Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-02-19
ORGANIZED INDUSTRY.
WHAT THERE is IN 1T FOR THE
ARMY OF WORkiNGWOMEN
What Women Are Doing and What They
May DO in tho Way Of Work that Is
Rs,nuneratiye-someI Information that
Is Worth Pondering.

May DO in the Way of Work that Is
Rsmun.rati,.-some Information that
Is Worth Pondering.
special Correspondence.
New YORK Feb 1.-the best and most
significant movement that has ever taken
place among workingwomen has been ac-
complished III Chicago 10y the Incorporation
of The Girls Cooperative Clothing Manu-
factory" Sixty girls, EXPERT workers, 1t Is
stated, have combined together, hired a large
room, fitted it up with thirty sewing ma
chines-Secured the patronage of a certain
number OF dealers and gone to work for
themselves. They agree to draw moderate
wages weekly and divide the surplus at the
end of the year This is n start in the right
direction; this solves the problem Of the
Working Girls" 50 far rs the siN'n are con
cerned. and the example will be priceless to
thousands of others Ry this act they have
shown All intelligent comprehension Of the
situation and of the way Ia better it for
themselves and others BY it they at once
raise themselves from the position Of power
less and dependent employees to independent
workers, with proprietary interests, and an
incentive TO raising and maintaining a higher
standard of work. No permanent improve
ment can take place in working conditions un-
less this necessity is recognized. The one diff
Guilty in regard to trades unions is that they
put good and bad workers on a level, and de
mand the wages for them, whether the work
is done or not done, or done well or i'll 1t is
greatly to be hoped that the conscience Of
workingwomen will prevent their accept
nnce Of this false fundamental basis. The co
operative principle is more dignified, more
honest and therefore more honorable. There
are no prisoners of poverty i'll this country
among those who know how and are willing
to do good work unless they suffer
from the tant of vice or inherited disease.
But the good worker has right To improve
his or her own condition by every possible
means. We have a right 10 look forward to
cumulative compensation for days and hours
of toll; {" the building up of a home; to its
enlargement; TO the qualification of tastes
and provision for old age. There are EN-
ployers who endeavor to secure these reward,
10 the worker, but they are the exception, nct
the rule. The average employer uses the be n
years of a mans or woman's life, gathers Vie
results, like grain, into his own barns and
holdings. fattens his own children upon it,
who are educated to despise the labor that
enriched them, and turns the laborer adrift
when he no longer serves his purpose
Cooperation is the only guarantee for the
working man and woman; the only one Cor
the purchasers Of the products of labor The
association Of young workingwomen upon
this basis is full of promise for their future:
and replies 10 the suggestion made in debate
the other day by a club of ladies, that the
working girl"-by which was meant shop
girls, factory girls and the hke-should take
refuge from the injustice practiced upon them
in their present position in the kitchens of the
well TO do claSses-.hat is, he employed by
the women instead of the men. With all due
respect to the good intentions Of the ladies in
the case, it is doubtful if this would not he,
at least and literally, jumping out of the fire
into the frying pan.
Domestic service with u.s. as indeed most
other things now and always, is in a transi-
feudal elements than any other form of paid
labor: the very word servant. from servi-
tude, serf and serfdom, indicating the sub
jective attitude which seems to belong to it,
But this is purely iIIusory, the outgrowth Of
tradition and customs, but not warranted by
the actual facts as they exist today. The
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